OpenAI purchased Chat.com, expanding its collection of well-known domains.
As of this morning, Chat.com now redirects to OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the acquisition via email.
Chat.com is one in every of the older domains on the Internet and was registered in September 1996. This was the case last 12 months reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one in every of the 2 largest publicly reported domain sales of all time.
Shah announced last March that he had sold Chat.com to an unnamed buyer. And late today, in a single post On
The domain name isn’t appear has modified hands because it was sold last 12 months, which suggests that OpenAI doesn't host ChatGPT on Chat.com – so it's probably not a rebrand.
OpenAI declined to say how much it paid for Chat.com.